TileMill

TileMill is an application (by MapBox) for making beautiful interactive maps. It's the "design studio" for journalists, web designers, researchers, or cartographers.

See also Geovisualisierung, Workshop am UNIGIS-Tag Schweiz (Mai 2013) und Workshop an der FOSSGIS (Juni 2013).

About

Documentation:

• Homepage: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/
• Support: http://support.mapbox.com/
• Programming TileMill with JavaScript: TileMill and Processing

Features:

• Import Formats:
  • File Formats: Shapefile, CSV (with column named 'WKT' or 'GEOJSON', encoded as WKT or GeoJSON)
  • Databases: Spatialite, PostGIS
  • Raster (see 'raster-colorizer' in dev. version, will be in next version)
• Export Formats:
  • Raster: PNG, PDF
  • SVG (Vector Graphics)
  • MBTiles
  • Mapnik XML
  • MapBox Online.

Documentation

• Offizielle Doku. http://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/manual/carto/
• Offizielle Referenz: http://www.mapbox.com/carto/api/2.1.0/
• Video-Tutorial (2 min.): Deutsche Ausgabe (English edition)
• Blog: [1]
• Presentation über CartoCSS: MacWright at foss4g (2013)
• Workshop "Schöne Karten erstellen und in der GIS Cloud veröffentlichen" am UNIGIS-Tag Schweiz 2013 (24.5.2013)
• Workshop TileMill an der FOSSGIS 2013 (13.6.2013)
• There's plenty of TileMill material in Help: http://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/ as well as some contributed docs: http://dataforradicals.com/the-insanely-illustrated-guide-to-your-first-tile-mill-map/ as well as plenty of presentations: https://speakerdeck.com/search?q=tilemill (feel free to reuse any of the ones made by MapBox people)

Howto use TileMill

• Five-part series (plus bonus 6th part) about explorations making choropleth maps using PostGIS, TileMill, Mapnik and Google Maps from Chicago Tribune including source code for the client (HTML, Javascript) and Python serving as tile server and simple HTTP server: http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2011/03/08/making-maps-1/

Notes on publishing interactive maps:

• Given a TileMill project (styling configuration) you can
  • directly publish to MapBox Online.
  • generate MBTiles which then are rendered with other tools (see MBTiles).
  • export Mapnik XML.
• An ArcGIS project (MXD) can be converted to a TileMill project, including all symbols, renderers, and labels, using the Arc2Earch Sync Extension/Plugin [2].

CartoCSS

CartoCSS is a styling language used by TileMill and CartoDB Online.

Notes on using CartoCSS:

• Always specify zoom levels as either >= or < . Don't use = or =< or >
• Two space indents. No tabs.
• space after : but no before
• If there is a &minscale_zoom18;, ignore it. These really mess up any attempts to run the style at z19 Dashes, not underscores, in layer names
• Avoid restating defaults, e.g. don't add point-allow-overlap = false